Nawal Al-Maghafi

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Nawal Al-Maghafi (born 1990 or 1991) is a Yemeni-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. She currently works for the BBC. [1] She joined BBC Newsnight in May 2023 as an international correspondent. [2] [3]

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Personal life

Al-Maghafi was raised in Yemen. [4] She attended the University of Nottingham, where she earned a degree in Economics with Politics. [3] [5]

Career

Journalism

After completing university, Al-Maghafi returned to Yemen, where she began making videos about the Yemeni revolution in 2011. [5] That year she also interviewed then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. [6] She later interviewed Ali Al Imad and figureheads in the Houthi insurgency. [7] In 2015, Al-Maghafi covered the peace talks between Houthi and General People's Congress delegates in Switzerland. [8] Al-Maghafi continued her reporting in Yemen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with her reports discussing the government cover-ups of cases in the country. [9] She later produced a documentary, Yemen’s Covid Cover Up, from her reporting. [10]

Al-Maghafi joined the BBC in 2011, [11] where she produced reports on Yemen for BBC News at Ten , BBC Our World and BBC Arabic. [5] In 2018, Al-Maghafi was nominated for the Royal Television Society's Young Talent of the Year award. [5] She joined BBC Newsnight in May 2023 as an international correspondent. [2] [3]

Documentaries

Al-Maghafi's 2016 documentary, Starving Yemen, explored the on-going humanitarian crisis in Yemen, caused by bombing in the Yemeni civil war. [12] [13] Her 2017 documentary, The Funeral Bombing, focused on a 2016 airstrike on a funeral in Sanaa. [12]

Her 2019 documentary, Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade, won two News and Documentary Emmy Awards in 2020 in the categories Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine and Best Story in a Newsmagazine. [14] [15]

In 2022, Al-Maghafi's documentary Yemen’s Covid Cover Up won an News and Documentary Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form. [16]

In 2023, Al-Maghafi released This World: Murder in Mayfair, a documentary exploring the 2008 murder of Martine Vik Magnussen in London. [11] [17]

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  2. 1 2 Wilson, Amy (2023-02-28). "Nawal Al-Maghafi to join BBC Newsnight". ResponseSource. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
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